CIA airlifting arms to Syrian jihadists, training others in Jordan

From the “they think we’re stupid” department (and check out the source):

The United States is training secular Syrian fighters in Jordan in a bid to bolster forces battling President Bashar Assad’s regime and stem the influence of Islamist radicals among the country’s persistently splintered opposition, American and foreign officials said.

The training has been conducted for several months now in an unspecified location, concentrating largely on Sunnis and tribal Bedouins who formerly served as members of the Syrian army, officials told The Associated Press. The forces aren’t members of the leading rebel group, the Free Syrian Army, which Washington and others fear may be increasingly coming under the sway of extremist militia groups, including some linked to al-Qaida, they said.

Could it be on the Jordanian border where Obama sent troops last year and where arms are being flown into (see below)?

The operation is being run by U.S. intelligence and is ongoing, officials said, but those in Washington stressed that the U.S. is providing only nonlethal aid at this point.

With help from the C.I.A., Arab governments and Turkey have sharply increased their military aid to Syria’s opposition fighters in recent months, expanding a secret airlift of arms and equipment for the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, according to air traffic data, interviews with officials in several countries and the accounts of rebel commanders.

The airlift, which began on a small scale in early 2012 and continued intermittently through last fall, expanded into a steady and much heavier flow late last year, the data shows. It has grown to include more than 160 military cargo flights by Jordanian, Saudi and Qatari military-style cargo planes landing at Esenboga Airport near Ankara, and, to a lesser degree, at other Turkish and Jordanian airports.

As it evolved, the airlift correlated with shifts in the war within Syria, as rebels drove Syria’s army from territory by the middle of last year. And even as the Obama administration has publicly refused to give more than “nonlethal” aid to the rebels, the involvement of the C.I.A. in the arms shipments — albeit mostly in a consultative role, American officials say — has shown that the United States is more willing to help its Arab allies support the lethal side of the civil war.

Most of the cargo flights have occurred since November, after the presidential election in the United States…

Funny, the NYT reported on the gun-running to jihadis in August 2012, well before the elections. Then scrubbed it.

“A conservative estimate of the payload of these flights would be 3,500 tons of military equipment,” said Hugh Griffiths, of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, who monitors illicit arms transfers.

“The intensity and frequency of these flights,” he added, are “suggestive of a well-planned and coordinated clandestine military logistics operation.”

The US have been sitting in two Jordanian airbases on the Syrian border since December 2011, when the US troops were supposedly to have left Iraq and come home. Not all came home, many flew in here and have been training jihadists, arming them and funding them and eventually pushing them over the border into Syria to wage a vile disgusting slaughter of innocents, where they film the atrocities, post it online, blame everyone else, and cry rivers when they get their arses kicked.. And its not only Jordan, US troops sit in Turkey, manning the patriot missile launchers facing Syria. And we also hear the jihadists crying and asking the US to be protected by the US missile shields… Now that is bollocks.. That is purely and simply an opportunity for the US/UK to invade and create a safe haven buffer zone over the border, inside and on Syria land..

I hope you’re being sarcastic–you should know very well by now why obama wants your guns, but is busily arming your enemies–and giving them billions of your taxpayer’s dollars, and all this money is going ONLY to islamic countries, yet he still hasn’t been impeached?

Ya know ‘Pete’, I’ve been trying to figure that one myself. I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s partially because white middle-class America is so afraid that they’re gonna commit another holocaust regarding ‘THE BLACK MAN’–figuratively speaking. In other words, they’re too damned afraid to touch Barack Hussein Obama! They see him as some kind of incarnation of Martin Luther King–though nothing could be farther from the truth! There’s no doubt whatsoever that if a WHITE MAN had committed the atrocities and outright unamerican activities that BHO has committed, that white man, no matter what his name was, would be under indictment for TREASON!!!! There’s no doubt in my mind that AMERICA IS IN FOR A RUDE AWAKENING AND THIS COUNTRY PROBABLY WON’T WAKE UP UNTIL IT HAPPENS–MAYBE NOT EVEN THEN!!!!!